2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Children & Youth Library Services

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Children and Youth Library Services Schools for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 36 people earned their degree in children and youth library services, making the major the 1203rd most popular in the United States.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 children and youth library services graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great children and youth library services programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the children and youth library services program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Children and Youth Library Services Schools for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree children and youth library services students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Children & Youth Library Services

#1

Simmons University

Boston, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$21,698 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Children and Youth Library Services Schools for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Simmons University landed the #1 spot on the list. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s children and youth library services degrees to 16 students in 2019-2020.

Simmons did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Children & Youth Library Services Master’s Degree Schools” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Simmons are $21,698, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full Simmons Children & Youth Library Services Report

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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